budgerigar

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) native to Australia and having green, yellow, or blue plumage. It is a popular cage bird bred in a variety of colors not found in wild populations. Also called shell parakeet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A small species of parakeet native to Australia and often kept as pets, Melopsittacus undulatus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An Australian name of the grass-parrakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus.

Given the way things have gone so far during this awards season I think it's a fair bet to say that everybody and their pet budgerigar will be ticking the box next to Mo'Nique's grammatically-bonkers name.

Ophelia remembered her father telling her a tale he had invented when she was very young about a tiny pink pill that miniaturized the swallower to such an extent that he or she was able to fly on the back of a budgerigar.9 According to Tom Maschler, Roald first started talking to him about The Minpins in the early 1980s, but had then put it aside.